'Urgent repairs' are being made to one property
Emergency services were scrambled to the Freehold estate on Tweedale Street shortly after 3pm today. Three fire engines attended and used a hose reel, a thermal imaging camera, a hearth kit and cutting equipment to extinguish the fire.
It is understood that nobody was injured in the fire, which involved wood in a concrete cavity of a four-storey residential property, according to Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service .At around 4.45pm Rochdale Borough Housing, who manage the estate, tweeted that fire crews were in attendance after 'a report of smoke coming from a RBH home on the Freehold estate'.
In a statement, GMFRS said: “Shortly after 3pm on Friday 17 February, firefighters were called out to a building fire on Tweedale Street, Rochdale. “Three fire engines from Littleborough, Heywood and Chadderton – as well as a Technical Response Unit from Leigh – attended the scene where a fire involving wood in a concrete cavity of a four-storey residential property had started. Firefighters extinguished the fire using a hose reel, a thermal imaging camera, a hearth kit and cutting equipment and were in attendance for approximately two hours.
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